Overview
- Fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott's completed works
- Offers personal insights on the life and work of one of the foremost mathematicians of the twentieth century
- Features topics of current interest, such as stable vector bundles, knot and manifold invariants, equivariant cohomology, and loop spaces
Part of the book series: Contemporary Mathematicians (CM)
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Table of contents (52 chapters)
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Biographies and Commentaries
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About this book
This book is the fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott’s Collected Papers. It collects all of Bott’s published articles since 1991 as well as some articles published earlier but missing in the earlier volumes. The volume also contains interviews with Raoul Bott, several of his previously unpublished speeches, commentaries by his collaborators such as Alberto Cattaneo and Jonathan Weitsman on their joint articles with Bott, Michael Atiyah’s obituary of Raoul Bott, Loring Tu’s authorized biography of Raoul Bott, and reminiscences of Raoul Bott by his friends, students, colleagues, and collaborators, among them Stephen Smale, David Mumford, Arthur Jaffe, Shing-Tung Yau, and Loring Tu. The mathematical articles, many inspired by physics, encompass stable vector bundles, knot and manifold invariants, equivariant cohomology, and loop spaces. The nonmathematical contributions give a sense of Bott’s approach to mathematics, style, personality, zest for life, and humanity. In one ofthe articles, from the vantage point of his later years, Raoul Bott gives a tour-de-force historical account of one of his greatest achievements, the Bott periodicity theorem. A large number of the articles originally appeared in hard-to-find conference proceedings or journals. This volume makes them all easily accessible.
It also features a collection of photographs giving a panoramic view of Raoul Bott's life and his interaction with other mathematicians.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Raoul Bott: Collected Papers
Book Subtitle: Volume 5
Editors: Loring W. Tu
Series Title: Contemporary Mathematicians
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51779-7Published: 10 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09599-4Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51781-0Published: 26 March 2018
Series ISSN: 0884-7037
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 676
Number of Illustrations: 146 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Algebraic Topology, Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology), Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds